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Special Education Study Skills Links

This purpose of this site is to assist students, teachers and parents in finding Internet Study Skills resources. All of these links are to Web sites outside of the Anchorage School District and will open in a new window. New window graphic.

 

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Great Study Skills Sites

Shaffer's Study Skills

Strategies for Effective Learning

Study Guides and Strategies

Study Skills Help Page Strategies for Success -Middle Tennessee State University

University of St. Thomas Study Skills Links

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Reading Skills

Improving Reading Skills

Reading Method: PORPE

Reading Methods: SQ3R

Reading Skills

SQ3R- A Reading Study System

       

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Learning Style Inventory

Abiator's Learning Styles Inventory

Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire

Peak Performance: Self Assessment Learning

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Self Advocacy

Gifted Program

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

       

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Library Skills

Basic Library Skills

Books Online

Dictionary.com

iTools

My Virtual Reference Desk

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Test Taking Skills

Dr. King's Exam Hints

Essay Exams

Ten Tips For Terrific Test Taking

Test Taking Strategies, Skills & Techniques

True/False Tests

       
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Listening Skills

Active Listening

Classroom Listening Skills

Improving Your Listening

Speaking and Listening Skills

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Time Management Skills

A Dozen Ways To Study Smarter In Less Time

Scheduling and setting goals

Time Management Skills for High School Students

       
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Math Skills

A+ Math

Grade 6 Math

Math Anxiety

Professor Freedman's Study Skills Tips for Math

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Writing Skills

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling

Writing Basics

Writing Guide Index

       
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Memory Skills

Memorizing

Memory Principles

Memory Skills

Mnemonics

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Other resources

Career Ready 101 is a web-based curriculum to help students develop workforce readiness skills and to prepare them for the WorkKeys assessment which is now mandatory for every 11th grader in the state. All of the material is presented in the context of a workplace environment.   The pre-WorkKeys modules provide instruction in very basic reading, writing and math skills.

Foundational skills

  • Applied math
  • Reading for information
  • Locating information

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Workplace etiquette
  • Ethics
  • Soft skills like listening, observation and teamwork.  

Logging in
User accounts have been created for every student (and teacher) in grades 7-12.  Classroom teachers may assign modules, or students may self select the modules of interest.  

Students may login using their ASD username and password.

SOAR provides skill building materials in reading, writing and math for students in grades 1-12.  Compliments of the U.S. Dept. of Defense, every student in the Anchorage School District has access to SOAR. It is not intended as a classroom teaching tool. Rather, it is a student/parent driven resource available for home use. Parents self-register on the site, then create/monitor user accounts for their children.

     
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Note Taking Skills

Academic Success: Cornell Note Taking System Graphic of MS Word icon

Note taking (many examples)

Taking notes from a textbook

Taking notes in a lecture

 
     

 

If you have questions, comments or want to add a link to this list, please contact Frank Shaffer.

 

 

 

 

 


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